DALE CITY — Nearly 2,000 home-schooled students in Prince William County will soon have the opportunity to take classes with other students.
A new Woodbridge Homeschool Co-Op will begin meeting at Hillendale Baptist Church in Dale City this fall. The co-op will offer kindergarten through 12th grade homeschooled students the opportunity to take three classes per week with other students.
WOODBRIDGE – Republican D.J. Jordan is celebrating after his campaign raised the most money of all first-time Republican challenger candidates for the Virginia House of Delegates, according to a campaign press release.
The campaign raised $100,166 during the first quarter, which also ranks as the fifth highest for any candidate overall – Republican or Democrat – in the state.
STAFFORD — Cydny A. Neville, MAEd, a teacher from Rodney Thompson Middle School in Stafford County, has been selected as an NEH Summer Scholar from a national applicant pool to attend one of 32 summer seminars and institutes supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
The endowment is a federal agency that, each summer, supports these enrichment opportunities at colleges, universities, and cultural institutions so teachers can study with experts in humanities disciplines.
FREDERICKSBURG — Democratic Presidential hopeful Beto O’Rourke will make stops in Dumfries and Fredericksburg on Wednesday on a tour through Virginia.
His stops will be at two restaurants: Pimenta Jamaican restaurant in Fredericksburg, and El Paso Mexican Grill just outside of Dumfries.
DUMFRIES — Springtime means street paving in Dumfries.
Every spring the Dumfries Public Works Department begins its annual paving of streets throughout the town.
SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY — Virginia State Police are investigating a two-vehicle fatal crash in Spotsylvania County that took the life of a Woodbridge man, and woman from Locust Grove.
The crash happened Sunday at 10:10 p.m. on Courthouse Road in Spotsylvania County, about half a mile south of Route 628, Smith Station Road.
PRINCE WILLIAM COUNTY — Police in Prince William County are investigating allegations that a school bus attendant assaulted a student while riding a bus.
At 2:36 p.m. Friday, police received a report that on more than one occasion in January 2019, the bus attendant, identified as Kelly Marlon Rucker, was seen on in-bus surveillance video physically assaulting a victim, identified as a 12-year-old boy, while on a Prince William County public school bus, according to Prince William police spokesman Jonathan Perok.
Many watched in disbelief on Monday was the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris burned.
The 800-year-old medieval cathedral was more than a tourist destination in France, it was also a symbol to many Catholics around the world.
WOODBRIDGE — Three people escaped a two-alarm fire today in Woodbridge.
Firefighters were called to 1784 Tiger Lily Circle at 2:47 a.m. for a townhouse fire. When they arrived, they found fire at the back deck of the house, states OWL Volunteer Fire Department spokeswoman Rebecca Barnes.
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